Thursday’s TV: White Heat

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BBC Two, 9pm
It’s no wonder that folk get excited about foreign offerings when so much of
the BBC’s drama output is heavy-handed, contrived and predictable. This
latest six-part series, written by Paula Milne (Small Island, Endgame),
is a classic example of drama-by-numbers, combining the period attractions
of Call the Midwife with a dash of Stephen Poliakoff-ultralite. A
group of students move into a flat in Tufnell Park in the Sixties. They are
the classic assortment of dramatic types — an art student, an impoverished
Irish girl, a working-class science student,a black student studying law,
and so on. The Sixties